{"id":335121,"date":"2026-09-01T18:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335121\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:46:16","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335121\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A New Jersey woman has been identified as the victim killed in a stabbing attack in Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Erin Piacenti, 32, of Chester, died after being stabbed Monday afternoon near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded around 4:24 p.m. to reports of a disorderly person in the area.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers encountered a 49-year-old woman armed with two large knives who advanced toward them, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers opened fire, striking the woman.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect, identified as Pamela Cisneros, 49, of Queens, was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Bellevue, where she was pronounced dead, according to police. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says Cisneros had a documented mental health history with the NYPD. She had no history of arrests. Tisch said it was an unprovoked stabbing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators later determined that Piacenti and a 68-year-old man had both been stabbed during the incident. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 68-year-old victim was listed in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The knives were recovered at the scene. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Jersey woman has been identified as the victim killed in a stabbing attack in Midtown Manhattan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-335121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}